Tip: r/ClaudeAI Crowdsources Best CLAUDE.md Files — Key Insight: Keep It Under 60% Context or Claude Ignores Half

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A 302-upvote r/ClaudeAI thread is collecting the best CLAUDE.md files from practitioners across different coding domains. The recurring insight: if your CLAUDE.md is too long, important rules get buried and ignored. Multiple independent practitioners converge on keeping context under 60% of the 200K-token window, with quality degrading at 20–40%. Best practice is to use CLAUDE.md for persistent project-level rules and Skills (SKILL.md) for on-demand context that loads only when relevant.